diadem application.

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Player Information

Player: Carlee
Contact: vdova
Invitation OR characters played: Kira
Are you over 18?: Yes


Character Information

Character: Dorothy Gale
Canon: Emerald City (post 1.10 and discovering Lucas has come to find her in Kansas from Oz)
Age: 20, allegedly (seems young to be a practicing nurse but that's what canon tells us)
History: Link
Possessions: Clothing, backpack containing various basic medical supplies (the kind you'd find in a first aid kit) and ibuprofen, boots.
Weapon: The Elements, a pair of bejeweled gauntlets that she can perform magic with (namely telekinesis in several forms, shock waves, walking on water, and controlling the weather). She has some control over them but they usually start to kick in whenever she feels she or someone she's close to is threatened. (more information here; please feel free to nerf these as you see fit, I presume the weather control would be eliminated or severely limited; the telekinesis and shock waves shouldn't be game-breaking but I'm open to those being nerfed as well).


Powers/Abilities: Dorothy, for the most part, is an ordinary human. She works as a nurse with somewhat limited medical knowledge (enough to assist in delivering a baby when the baby is breech and know what common ingredients can substitute for medication and counteract a poisoning, but she wouldn't know how to perform a surgery); canon is unclear on whether she's an RN or an LNP. There's a tattooed birthmark on her left hand and, as mentioned in the weapon section, she has the capability to wield magical gauntlets that allow her to perform powerful magic in a limited capacity; without these she is an ordinary human.

She is also capable of using a gun and sword, though this would not be relevant unless someone lets her use one of theirs.


Application Questions

Who is the most important person in their life and why? What might be different if this person hadn't been around?

I would have to say that Karen Chapman is the most important person in her life, or at least the one who inspires her towards action the most. Even with the reveal that she is not her biological mother as she'd believed her whole life, she spends her life wondering why she'd been given up and hoping to be more while simultaneously making her anxious about forming attachments due to fear of abandonment. She also ends up being transported to Oz due to her drive to want to see her, and her desire to know more about where she'd come from once she learns she'd been born in Oz and that Karen had taken her back to Kansas for her own safety centers around her and the hope that she's safe.

Is there an event in your character's life that they'd do differently? How so and why?

She wishes things with Lucas had gone differently - that she'd been able to use the elements to knock him out instead of leaving him tied up on a cross in a field in the same way she'd found him. In more bitter moments I think she wishes she'd left him that way when she'd first met him, but she mostly hates that she'd done something so cruel to someone she'd fallen in love with, even if he'd had orders to kill her.

What's the greatest challenge you foresee your character facing in the setting?

She's both equipped to handle a dangerous situation and has just come from one, so she'll be frustrated about being pulled into a world other than her own when she'd just returned home.

What's the easiest thing you foresee your character adapting to in the setting?

Given that she has just come from another dangerous world and one with far fewer technological advancements that she's familiar with, she'll at least be able to adapt to this world fairly well in comparison. She'll be eager to use her knowledge, both as a medical professional and a limited magic user, to assist, especially as she realizes how many others have been displaced.


Samples

Sample: Link one, link two

Comments

addendum

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1 ) I think that if Karen hadn't decided to remain close enough for Dorothy to access (but not do anything to encounter her), she would have still had trouble accepting why she would have left her behind, but she would have been able to move on from it and accept that there was a reason she'd had to leave her with the Gales. Little is shown besides Karen leaving her with the Gales and Dorothy and Em having a brief discussion about it, but she mentions that Karen hasn't reached out and that she ends up making the drive to Karen's trailer often enough for Em to comment on it, which suggests she's been trying to work up the courage to reach out on her own for quite a while. I think that while good-intentioned, Karen's choice to remain close but not accessible left Dorothy feeling unwanted and with deep-seeded self-esteem issues in spite of the life she's built for herself as a skilled young nurse and a devoted daughter ('I wished I was more').

2 ) I think that while realizing she was capable of cruelty like that frightened her and she'd be scared to access the part of herself that's comfortable with performing them, especially on people she'd loved, she does feel that she was justified in doing what she'd done (which is something she feels equally as frightened and conflicted about). She'd want to enact them only as a last resort, which falls in line with other violent acts she commits against others (as another example, tricking the witch of the East into using the gun on herself when she had her and Lucas imprisoned) and she would never want to feel comfortable enacting them, but she would enact them.

If she'd been able to knock him out without resorting to hanging him on the cross she'd still need to leave him behind (the real thing that horrifies her is how she left him in the same exact state she'd found him in, something that when she'd found him had seemed like an unimaginably cruel way to punish someone), but given that he ends up finding her at home at the end of the series, presumably to bring her back to work with him, I imagine it would take a lot of work on both their parts to end up trusting each other and feeling safe enough to work together again. I think his desire to change and make things right, not only with her but with the people he'd harmed while working under Glinda and the Wizard, would go a long way in her trusting him again. Her hesitation to kill him comes from what she'd seen of that in the time she'd known him and the knowledge that he hadn't had a choice in turning on her since he'd been under Glinda's influence.

3 ) While frustrated that she'd be pulled into another world again, she's at least familiar with the concept of needing to learn how a new world works and could probably help those less familiar with it to cope. I'm sure that the bonds she'd form with people would help her find the bright in the situation and she'd be willing to assist in missions and protecting people. The desire to go back home could still potentially get her in trouble (I could see her becoming reckless in exploration in trying to find some sort of method to get back home), but knowing she's not the only displaced one would make her want to stay until others were able to find a way back too.

4 ) Upon the realization of how medicine works here she would still want to volunteer to worth within the first aid center (she'd also be among those who'd offer to patch people up for free). She may be suspicious of the pills and injections and want to know how they work, and I could see her trying to learn by asking other (human) medical professionals about what they contain and keeping a small stock of things like charcoal and honey if they're available for medical methods people might not be able to afford to go to the clinics or hospitals for (and possibly getting into trouble for both her curiosity and taking business from clinics).